---
title: “You will never see another pond,” replied the Crane, who thought th… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: “You will never see another pond,” replied the Crane, who thought that it would be the easiest thing in the world to shake the Crab from his neck. Who acts: You, Crane, pond. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 9, with its depende
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/9/27/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Jade Story Book; Stories from the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/) / [Opening, part 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/9/) / 27

# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 27

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
“You will never see another pond,” replied the Crane, who thought that it would be the easiest thing in the world to shake the Crab from his neck.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** You, Crane, pond · **What happens:** not see, reply, think, be, shake · **To what, where:** pond, easiest thing, world, Crab, neck · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Crane, pond), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg65965:9:27
# text = “You will never see another pond,” replied the Crane, who thought that it would be the easiest thing in the world to shake the Crab from his neck.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
6	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	pond	pond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
10	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Crane	Crane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	easiest	easy	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	22	amod	_	_
22	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	ccomp	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	shake	shake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Crab	Crab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **see** *in a quote* | future | You | another pond |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pond=Stimulus |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the Crane |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the Crane |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | would | pond | the easiest thing |  | the world |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **shake** | to-infinitive |  | the Crab |  | Crab's neck |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent crab=Theme from neck=Trajectory |

<!-- .note -->
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

<!-- div src -->

**Text:** «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/9/26/)
- next →: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/9/28/)
- ↑ back to [Opening, part 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/9/)